Former University of Oregon football coach Mike Bellotti, once upon a time on the short list at USC, said he misses being on the sideline as a coach, "but not enough to go back." He revealed that he's turned down Pac-12 coaching jobs since leaving Oregon, and that he's not interested in the Trojans vacancy.

Bellotti was considered for the gig in 2010 when Pete Carroll left the Trojans. He joined me on the radio show (12-3p on 750-AM) on Wednesday and said he loves the concept of football season from Friday-Sunday, but doesn't miss signing day, discipline and the Monday-Thursday portion of the work week.

"The first year when they pushed the (NCAA) sanctions back I think everybody thought, 'It's not going to matter.' Then all of a sudden the scholarship limitations the past couple of years kicked in and they're a very thin squad. I think the other thing is you lose a guy like Matt Barkley, who was a great quarterback who also while he was there stopped some other great quarterbacks from going there because he was started as a freshman."

Bellotti also said the positive developments at UCLA, Oregon, and Stanford hurt the Trojans.

On whether he's interested in the USC job:

"No. I mean, you're always interested as a coach simply because it's always nice to have somebody say, 'We'd love to have you.' The reality is I'm doing a great job being a fan of my youngest son, Sean Bellotti, who is playing football at Cal-Lutheran. I could have taken a couple of other jobs, actually in the Pac-12 in the past couple of years but the reality is he didn't want to walk on at those schools... I only saw two of his high school football games last year..."

Is he sure?

"You're always interested in a great job, but I'm not interested."

Is he really, really sure?

"The thing that would take me back and cause me to want to go back is if I could get a staff together of people that I really loved, respected and knew would be a family. And you went to work at a place that really cared about the athletes and understood that winning is a process, it's not the end all thing... I don't need that anymore, I don't have to coach, but there might be a time when I want to coach again."

Is he really, really, really sure?

"You know what, I doubt they'd get to this point, but if they had a dream staff, and they'd somehow figure out how to make my wife happy and take care of my son that would be different. Those are some big hurdles, though."